MOM’S MAGNETS
Limited Edition Risograph Print Book
Self-Published, August 2020
Photo courtesy Miriam Gallery
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Featured in Bangkok Art Book Fair 2020
Mom’s Magnets is Leerasanthanah’s typological documentation of her mother’s collection of magnets from worldly destinations. The souvenir magnet is exemplary of reducing culture, place, people, heritage, and politics to commodified kitsch. Patterns reveal the homogenous representations of marketable icons. Playful juxtapositions force a relationship between two seemingly unrelated symbols, like the Egyptian hieroglyph tablet and Britain’s telephone booth. Ultimately, the book contemplates the attempt to embody and possess place and time—a subject that resonates with Leerasanthanah’s past work. 2020
Self-published
Printing/ Production: Risograph
Size: 14.859 x 20.955 cm
No. of pages: 32 pages
Edition of 100 copies